I. Collections
Public
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
- Victoria and Albert Art Museum, London, England
- Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
- Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
- George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
- Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
- Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
- Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
- Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
- Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California
- St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
- Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida
- Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
- Loyola Marymount College
- Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
- University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Corporate Collections
- Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, California
- The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
- University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio
- Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio
- Aaron Spelling Entertainment Company, Los Angeles, California
- Fidelity Investments (Cincinnati, Cleveland, Boston, Los Angeles)
- Bank of Montreal, Los Angeles, California
- U.S. Trust of N.Y., New York, New York
- Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
- British Petroleum of America, Cleveland, Ohio
- Key Corporation, Portland, Oregon
- Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles, California
Corporate Commissions
- Scripts Howard Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio (1989)
- CitiCorp, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1989)
- McCann Erickson, New York, New York (1988)
- Metro General Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio (1991)
- University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio (1992)
- The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio (1994)
- Jacobs Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio (1994)
- Ohio State Employee Retirement System, Columbus, Ohio (1994)
- School Employees Retirement System of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio (1994)
II. Teaching Experience
1982 - 2006 (24 years), Professor, tenured (Photography and 2-D art), Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
III. Education
- 2006, Doctorate of Fine Arts (Posthumous), Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio
- 1977, MFA, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, Visual Arts (Photography) (major professor Robert Fichter)
- 1975, BFA, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, Visual Arts (Photography)
Continuing Education in Computer Graphics and Photography
- 2005, Digital Photography Workshop, Los Angeles Art Center, Pasadena, CA (14 week workshop)
- 2005, Photographic Creative Concepts, UCLA Extension, Los Angeles, CA (6 week workshop)
- 1985, Post College Certificate with honors, Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario, Canada (Computer Graphics)
IV. Awards, Grants and Fellowships
- 2007, Governor's Awards for the Arts in Ohio (Posthumous), Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio
- 2006, Doctorate of Fine Arts (Posthumous), Cleveland State University
- 2005, Associate Fellow, Asian Studies Department, UCLA, Fall 2005, Los Angeles, California
- 2003, Senior Fulbright Research Fellow, Center for International Services and Programs, Cleveland State University. Art Research in India and Nepal
- 2002, Artist Fellowship in Photography, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio
- 1999, Travel Artist Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio. Fellowship support for travel and creative research in India
- 1997, Research Fellowship, Civil Liberties Education Fund, Washington D.C. Project research grant on Japanese American Internment Camps
- 1997, EFFRD Grant, Cleveland State University, CSU faculty research grant
- 1996, Artist Fellowship in Photography, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio
- 1995, Artist Project Grant, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio
- 1994, Cleveland Visual Arts Award, Cleveland City Women's Club, Cleveland, Ohio
- 1991-1992, Distinguished Scholar Award, Cleveland State University, College of Arts and Sciences
- 1989, National Endowment for the Arts Regional Photography Fellowship, Arts Midwest, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 1989, Professional Development Grant, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio
- 1989, Artist in Residence, Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California
- 1988, Ohio Artist Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio
- 1987, First Place Award for Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art, "May Show"
- 1985, Artist in Residence, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
- 1983, Research and Creative Activities Grant, Cleveland State University
- 1983, Product Grant, Nimslo 3-d Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia
- 1980, Florida Individual Artist Fellowship - Photography, Florida Arts Council, Tallahassee, Florida
V. Exhibitions
Posthumous Solo Exhibitions
- 2007, "Masumi Hayashi, Meditations: Two Pilgrimages", Curated by Barbara Tannenbaum, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
- 2007, "Masumi Hayashi, Meditations: Remembering Injustice", Curated by Megan Lykins Reich, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Cleveland, Ohio
- 2007, "Masumi Hayashi, Meditations: The Memorial Exhibition", Curated by Michael Gentile, Cleveland State University Gallery
- 2007, "A Tribute To Masumi Hayashi: Student Works", Curated by Michael Gentile, Cleveland State University Gallery
- 2007, "Masumi Hayashi, Meditations: Heartland", Curated by Susan R. Channing, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- 2006, "Panopticon: Photo Collages of Prison and War Sites", Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio
Posthumous Group Exhibitions
- 2025-2026, "(Re)Constructing History", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, California. October 4, 2025 – May 3, 2026. Group exhibition exploring how photographs both record an instant and capture embedded history, featuring contemporary artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Nona Faustine, Carla Williams, and Dawoud Bey
- 2012, "Two Views", Curated by Bryce Kanbarra, Japanese Canadian Cultural Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Exhibition with Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank
- 2011, "Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts", Curated by Amy Chaloupka, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Michigan
- 2011, "The Life and Death of Buildings", Curated by Joel Smith, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
- 2010, "Land Marks", Curated by Anne Bohlen, Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
Major Solo Exhibitions
- 2006, "History and Memory: Landscapes of Internment", Ganser Gallery, Millersville University, Pennsylvania
- 2004, "History and Memory", Curated by Marian Hollinger, Fairmount State College of Art, West Virginia
- 2003, "Sights Unseen, the Photographic Constructions of Masumi Hayashi", Curated by Karen Higa, Japanese-American National Museum, Los Angeles
- 2003, "The Sacred and the Sublime: Photo Collages of Angkor Wat and India", Curated by Eiko Fukuhara, White Room Gallery, West Hollywood
- 2003, "India Temples: Masumi Hayashi Photographs", Curated by Tom Hinson, Cleveland Museum of Art
- 2001, "Hidden Places, Silent Spaces, Japanese American and Japanese Canadian Relocation Camps", Curated by June Shuman, Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, Portland
- 2000, "History and Memory: the Japanese American Internment Camps", University Gallery, Millersville University, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- 1998, "American Concentration Camps", Whipple Art Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
- 1997, "CityWorks", Curated by Helen Leggitt and David Perry, Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
- 1993, "Post Industrial Panoramic Landscapes", Curated by Alison Nordstrom, Florida State University Art Gallery
- 1992, "EPA Superfund Sites", Curated by Barbara Tannenbaum, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
- 1990, "Ohio Steel Mills: A Post Industrial Perspective", Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
- 1990, "Industrial Panoramic Landscapes", Curated by Sheri Collins, John Michael Koehler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
- 1988, "Post Industrial Panoramic Landscapes: A Portrait of Cleveland", Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2005, "NEO" Show, Juried, Cleveland Museum of Art
- 2004, "Terrestrial Forces", Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts
- 2003, "Only Skin Deep", International Center of Photography, New York and Seattle Museum of Art
- 2003, "The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art", Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- 2002, "Cultural Identity", Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
- 1999-2001, "Revisioning Manzanar", Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
- 1998, "Picturing Manzanar", Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco
- 1996, "Gender: Beyond Memory", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
- 1996, "Grids", Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- 1995-1997, "War Works: Women, Photography, and the Art of War", Victoria and Albert Museum. UK and Europe tour
- 1994, "Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art", Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
- 1993, "Beyond the Walls: Eastern State Penitentiary", Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia
- 1991, "Northeast Ohio Selections", Cleveland Museum of Art
- 1989, "State of the Art: New Work by Ten Artists in Ohio", The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
VI. Publications
Books
- 2011, The Life and Death of Buildings: On Photography and Time, Joel Smith, Princeton University Art Museum/Yale University Press
- 2011, Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, Erika Doss, John Michael Kohler Arts Center
- 2011, Reading Photography: A Sourcebook of Critical Texts 1921-2000, Sri-Kartini Leet, Lund Humphries
- 2010, Memorial Mania: Public Feeling In America, Erika Doss, University of Chicago Press (Dedication to Masumi Hayashi)
- 2005, Creative Essence: Cleveland's Sense of Place, Nina Freedlander Gibans, Kent State University Press (Cover Image)
- 2005, Writing the World on Globalization, Rothenberg & Pryor, MIT Press (Cover Image)
- 2003, Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, Coco Fusco & Brian Wallis, Henry N. Abrams/ICP
- 2001, Art, Songs of Terror, Tales of Tule Lake, Barney Shallit, CSU Fullerton (Cover Image)
- 2000, Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience, Lawson Inada, Heyday Books
- 1997, The Lure of the Local, Lucy Lippard, New Press Publishers
- 1996, Legacy of Light: Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom Hinson
- 1994, War Works, Val Williams, Virago Press, London
- 1992, Exploring Color Photography, Robert Hirsch, Focal Press
Selected Art Journal Reviews
- 2012, "Gallery: Recollections", Architecture Boston, Fall 2012
- 2011, A.D. Coleman, "Frames of Reference", Ag: The International Journal of Photographic Art and Practice
- 2003, "Photo Collages of Masumi Hayashi", Photo Italia Magazine, Milan, Italy
- 2003, Tom Hinson, "Indian Temples, Masumi Hayashi Photographs", Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine
- 1997, Robert Odum, "Single Frame: Photographer Masumi Hayashi", DoubleTake Magazine
- 1993, Rebecca Solnit, "The West Revisited", Creative Camera Magazine, London
- 1991, Vicki Goldberg, "A Terrible Beauty", ARTnews
- 1990, J.B. Jackson, "Of Houses and Highways", Aperture: Beyond Wilderness
Selected Popular Magazine and Newspaper Reviews
- 2003, "A Fractured State of Photography", Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times Calendar
- 2003, "Functional dysfunction", Scarlet Cheng, Los Angeles Times Calendar
- 1995, "The Fourth Wave", Mark Dowie, Mother Jones Magazine
- 1995, Jeff Hagan, "The Artist Outside", Cleveland Magazine
- 1994, Helen Cullinan, "Photocollage Artist Inserting Activist Lens Into Her Camera", The Plain Dealer
- 1990, "Panoramas and Pointed Social Commentary by Hayashi", Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times
VII. Lectures, Panels, and Workshops
- 2004, "Reconstruction of Identity through Photo Collage", Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
- 2003, Artist Panel/Lecture, Southeast Asia Fulbright Fellowship Conference, Puri, India
- 2003, "Conversation with Masumi Hayashi and Tim B. Wride", Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
- 2003, Artist Lecture, Nepal Fulbright commission and Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
- 2002, "Heart to Heart: Women Artists Dealing with Issues of War", Panel, Dahl Art Center, Rapid City, South Dakota
- 1997, "The Landscape in Question", Panel, Transforming the Mirror, Women in Photography Conference, Boston
- 1996, "Gender, Beyond Memory", Lecture and Panel with simultaneous translation, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
- 1995, "Warworks: Women, Photography, and the Art of War", Symposium Panel, Royal College of Art, London
- 1994, "Contemporary Issues in Landscape", Symposium Panel, South East Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach
- 1993, "Can You Tell a Sansei from Her Photographs", Panel, Society for Photographic Educators, Seattle
- 1992, "Landscapes in the Modern World", Workshop Leader, Friends of Photography, San Francisco
VIII. Art Administration
- 1994-1995, Panel Member, Cleveland Public Library Public Arts Committee
- 1994, Fellowship Juror, Greater Columbus Arts Councils
- 1994, Curator, "Re...Photo Construct" Exhibit, Cleveland State University Art Gallery
- 1991, 1985-1987, 1990, 1992, Visual Arts Panel Member, Ohio Arts Council
- 1988-1994, Board of Directors, SPACES (Art Gallery), Cleveland, Ohio
- 1983-1985, Gallery Director, Cleveland State University Art Gallery
- 1982, Gallery Director, Miami-Dade Community College, Coral Gables, Florida
- 1981-1982, Curator, University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, Florida